Thursday, October 24, 2024

Poem Blanket


I am trying to make tenderness come out.  Tenderness and the possibility of touch.   Isabella Ducrot



Saturday, October 19, 2024

Not Thinking


To do:

Type up my new philosophy so that I can read about what I am not thinking.    Ha ha. 

Friday, October 11, 2024

tenderness


The focus of designing minimal quilts is to produce work that has been reduced to its essence - stripped down to its essentials.  Gwen Marston
 

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Un-sewing

It’s dark now in the mornings.  

I just want to work in the studio, sifting through fabrics and projects and landing on something worthwhile.  Plunge in.        

Today I’ll start by ripping out the fancy stitches I started to put into this piece in the spring.  I’ll put a window hour into un-sewing.  

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Finally


 Should I use the gold and yellow handkerchief linen or the sumac berry lightweight cotton for the second side of this new piece? 

I’m going to use the cotton. 🩷

Monday, September 23, 2024

The present, the past, the bird singing


 I stayed up until 2:20 am and finished my quilt top with the polka dot sea and the starry heaven and am looking at it now on the wall and I think it’s done.  Enough for now.  No moon.  No stars in that space.  Just an atmosphere.  An empty space that I will hand stitch.  

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Cool Old Lady Painters


 Last night I got caught up in learning about Rose Wylie; 90 years old - a British artist who has become the critics’ new delight with her Phillip Guston like cartoon paintings and her messy house.  Her and Isabella Ducrot are the latest thing in the art world.  I think Isabelle is 92.  

I love Ducrot’s paintings of flowers and dots and her use of old textiles and their sensibility, and I think I would be interested in Rose’s too.  Old lady painters.  Cool old lady painters. The world has finally noticed them.